Events

CILVR Seminar: Student Talks

Speaker: Yucen (Lily) Li, Jack Lu, and Jeff Cui

Location: 60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor open space
Videoconference link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99988283270

Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Jeff Cui
In-the-Wild Policy Learning and Robust Affordable Hardware for Home Robotics
Jeff Cui is a third-year PhD student with Lerrel Pinto, working on robot learning and representation learning.

Yucen (Lily) Li
Shaping Inductive Biases through Synthetic Data
Yucen Lily Li is a fourth-year PhD advised by Andrew Gordon Wilson. Her research focuses on model generalization, uncertainty estimation, and incorporating prior knowledge in machine learning, with applications such as hyperparameter optimization and protein design.

Jack Lu
When Does Verification Pay Off? A Closer Look at LLMs as Solution Verifiers
Jack is a third-year PhD student advised by Mengye Ren. He works on LLM reasoning and test-time adaptation, with recent interests in vision-language models.